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The Department of Astronomy at UdeC is a source of intense scientific research. Its teachers, postdoctoral researcher and PhD students are involved in a series of scientific projects, covering a wide variety of areas of modern Astrophysics. The Department maintains a high scientific productivity and publishes about 50 articles of research each year in the most prestigious international journals of Astronomy and Astrophysics. |
Research lines developed by members of the Astronomy Department at the University of Concepción include: |
| - Formation and evolution of galaxies - Study of local galaxies, and at high redshift - Clusters of galaxies - Active galaxies - Dynamics of elliptical galaxies - Extragalactic distance scale - Stellar populations - Star-clusters - Stellar evolution - Variable-stars (numerous types) - Extra-solar planets - Numerical simulations of the structure of dwarf galaxies in the Local Group - And many others… |